Communication Studies

Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game Research.
Update: the deadline has been postponed. The call will close on the 10th of August. Call for abstracts. This year the Dutch DiGRA is hosted by Utrecht University. Do you wish to attend and contribute to this symposium? We then invite you to submit an abstract of your (un)published research or project using the form in this post.

A new game that opens up your mind
Have you ever received a message from someone who’s number is not in your phone? We’ve all been in that situation before, trying to guess who the mystery sender is. This all-too-common situation is one of three starting points of Open Mind, a creative ‘whodonnit’-type educational game. Players have to talk to various characters –

Article: Digital literacy games: a systematic literature review
Frontiers in Communication journal has published the open access article "Digital literacy games: a systematic literature review", authored by the team behind the Digital Literacy Games KIEM GO-CI grant project, a collaboration between Erasmus University and Utrecht University.

Game Research Magazine
In 2017, a special issue titled Game Research – Games that Change your Mind was published about the research projects of the Utrecht Center for Game Research.